Recently some one notified me about a serious security issue in osCommerce and CRE Loaded. Due to this issue any one can see orders information, customer information and do so many things in admin area, without login. It was hard to believe but its true. I tried it on local osCommerce installation and it worked [...]
There are few things which can be done in php configuration to help speed up Magento site. Realpath Cache: A lot of file I/O is done to run Magento site. This file I/O can be improved with faster hard disk. There is more can be done to improve this. PHP configuration allows to configure size [...]
Does server location matters for Google? I have been asked this question several time, and the answer is YES. If your server is in Europe you gonna get more traffic from Europe than you get from other regions, despite the high search volume in other regions, and content for global audience. This blog is live [...]
Based on Google Analytics (GA) visitor stats blow are the most visited pages on this blog during April, 2010. /topic/web-performance-optimization/ /serving-images-from-cookie-less-domain/ Home page This month site received highest traffic during a month, beating last months record.
HTML5 is coming, there are few tags which will not be supported in HTML 5, here is the list Tag Description <acronym> Defines an acronym <applet> Defines an applet <basefont> Use CSS instead <big> Defines big text <center> Defines centered text <dir> Defines a directory list <font> Defines text font, size, and color. Deprecated. <frame> [...]
HTML5 is next version of html we will soon be using. So here is the list of new tags added in html 5. <article> Defines an article <aside> Defines content aside from the page content <audio> Defines sound content <canvas> Defines graphics <command> Defines a command button <datagrid> Defines data in a tree-list <datalist> Defines [...]
One important feature Magento provides for improved performance is “Flat Products and Categories”. Magento stores data of single product in multiple tables. Like name is stored in catalog_product_entity_varchar table, id is stored in catalog_product_entity_int table, price is stored in catalog_product_entity_decimal table. Under this scheme, in order to fetch a product data must be fetched from [...]